Exodus 12:1-20

BBE^{(i) 1} And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, ² Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year. ³ Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family: ⁴ And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man. ⁵ Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats: ⁶ Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark. ⁷ Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken. ⁸ And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants. ⁹ Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts. ¹⁰ Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be burned with fire. ¹¹ And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover. ¹² For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord. ¹³ And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever. ¹⁵ For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food. ¹⁷ So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever. ¹⁸ In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. ¹⁹ For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth. ²⁰ Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.